On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1985, the Chen family split up, and the whole village was waiting to see the joke of Chen Laoer, whose father was lame and his family was living in poverty. The reborn fifteen-year-old Chen Zhiyuan, with the painful memories of his previous family being destroyed, changed from his cowardice and made a strong comeback, counting out his uncle's ungratefulness, liquidating his father's kindness in saving people, and guarding his family's land rights. In order to improve his family's financial situation, he went to the county town to learn how to grow watermelons on dry land. He saved his elder brother who was about to be imprisoned and led his family to open up wasteland for farming and set up a stall to start a business. From being heavily in debt to becoming rich through hard work, Chen Zhiyuan counterattacked step by step, rewriting the fate of his family and completely changing the outlook of the entire village who once ridiculed them.
